Faculty news

Lydia White has recently returned from Sarajevo where she was a plenary speaker at the 5th International Conference on Foreign Language Teaching and...

Jessica Coon gave a colloquium talk at MIT last week. The title of her talk was "Two types of ergative agreement: Implications for...

Morgan Sonderegger visited Cornell University last week, where he gave two talks: "The dynamics of sounds and contrasts on reality television", as a...

Last week, Lisa Travis was part of a panel for McGill's "In Her Own Words: Stories from Distinguished Research Careers". The panel members...

Charles Boberg was was recently interviewed about current trends in American English dialects by Larry Mantle on the show Airtalk, on KPCC, an...

Michael Wagner gave a colloquium talk at the University of Massachusetts Amherst last Friday. The title of his talk was "Additivity and the syntax...

The Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Workshop (MOTH 2015) Syntax Workshop is taking place at the University of Ottawa on March 28th and 29th. Yuliya Manyakina will present...

Jessica Coon's collaborative paper with Pedro Mateo Pedro (Universidad del Valle de Guatemala) and Omer Preminger (Maryland) just appeared in the journal Linguistic Variation. The...

McGill Linguistics was well represented at this year's Montreal-Ottawa-Laval-Toronto Phonology Workshop (MOLT), which took place this past weekend at the University of Toronto....

Lydia White spent part of March break in Turkey where she gave two talks. She presented a talk titled "Implications of linguistic theory and...

Jessica Coon is just returning from Berkeley where she was a plenary speaker at the 41st Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Here talk was...

Brendan Gillon leaves on Wednesday for Taipei to spend four months as a visiting professor at National Chengchi University (國立政治大學). He will be working there...